Lake Tahoe's Railroads

✍ Scribed by Drew, Stephen E

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Series: Images of rail
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The lake of the sky -- The Comstock's demand for wood -- The Lake Tahoe narrow gouge -- Fluming between railroads -- Other 19th-century Tahoe loggers -- Lake Tahoe railway & transportation -- Steaming around the Lake -- 20th-century Tahoe loggers -- Saving the locomotive Glenbrook.

✦ Table of Contents

The lake of the sky --
The Comstock's demand for wood --
The Lake Tahoe narrow gouge --
Fluming between railroads --
Other 19th-century Tahoe loggers --
Lake Tahoe railway & transportation --
Steaming around the Lake --
20th-century Tahoe loggers --
Saving the locomotive Glenbrook.

✦ Subjects

Logging railroads;Logging railroads--Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.)--History;Railroads;Railroads--Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.)--History;Transportation;Transportation--Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.)--History;History;Pictorial works;Railroads -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- Pictorial works;Logging railroads -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- Pictorial works;Transportation -- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- Pictorial works;Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) -- Histo

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